08 March 2012

"I've never seen a project go up this fast," said Ryan Smith, an expert on prefabricated architecture at the University of Utah.
In other countries, the most advanced prefab construction methods can reduce building times by a third to half, Smith said. The builders of the Changsha hotel did better, knocking one-half to two-thirds off the normal schedule.
"It's unfathomable," Smith said.

According to the about us page for the Harris gals, the oldest sister is 20; pretty sure they weren't even "unborn" when the US "had" Ronald Reagan. I guess they learned about his unsurpassed greatness while being home schooled. The gals openly brag about having never bought a magazine, and being spared from the corruption of cable TV (they actually say they don't subscribe to cable TV because their parent's don't want to "raise hoodlums").

My favorite part is 0:38 where the gal in blue really lets her hair down for ol' Rick. ZaNy!!!

you may have noticed the sudden and overwhelming internet presence of something called KONY 2012. this is it, jicyww.

Kony 2012 is an unlikely internet phenomenon. The 30-minute documentary about a despot Ugandan warlord has been watched more than 30m times online in less than 48 hours.

The hard-hitting film, uploaded by a group seeking to expose the guerilla leader Joseph Rao Kony, was relatively undiscovered until two days ago despite being first watched on the website Vimeo last Friday.

In the past 48 hours, Kony 2012 has been viewed more than 21m times on YouTube and 11m times on Vimeo.

According to YouTube statistics, the Kony video is most popular with young women aged 13 to 17 and men aged 18 to 24. (via)

It would be great to get rid of Kony. He and his forces have left a path of abductions and mass murder in their wake for over 20 years. But let's get two things straight: 1) Joseph Kony is not in Uganda and hasn't been for 6 years; 2) the LRA now numbers at most in the hundreds, and while it is still causing immense suffering, it is unclear how millions of well-meaning but misinformed people are going to help deal with the more complicated reality. (via)